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There used to be a great feature in the magazine The Comics Journal called the swipe file, where a classic piece of comic art was held up next to a more recent piece that usually resembled it a bit too much to be mere coincidence. The best know modern version is, of course, the You [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 21st, 2011 |  One comment
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool 
I have certain fascinations, passions, interests and obsessions. Always having a camera in my pocket means I now take thousands of photos related to them. Sometimes the meaning can only be demonstrated in sequence or juxtaposition. Most of the time they just sit undisturbed on a flash card or hard drive. Lately my love of [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | June 5th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Categories: Andy's Chair, Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool 
Unadvertised special feature: two-inch thick Styrofoam block (pictured below) As you may have heard, the complete catalog of the Beatles recordings have recently become available in a brilliantly remastered digital version. You can acquire these in a complete set for between $99.99 and $169.99 (yes, really, take a look on Amazon) There is a special version, [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | December 21st, 2009 | Leave a comment
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, music, Wow Cool Commercial culture depends on the theft of intellectual property for its livelihood. Mass marketers steal ideas from visionaries, alter them slightly if at all, then reissue them to the public as new products. In the process what was once insurgent becomes commodity, and what was once the shock of the new becomes the shlock of [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 12th, 2008 | Leave a comment
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Categories: Hearts and Minds, Wow Cool I gleefully tracked the poetry of spam this past summer (or spoetry) in a couple of posts (Thing 1 | Thing 2). Now, Yale School of Art MFA candidate Tom Manning has gone one better and turned them into cartoons. See the results on the excellent (if far too infrequently updated) Design Observer. [...] By Marc Arsenault | November 18th, 2007 | Leave a comment
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